Author: Heavy Feather

Poetry Review: Jeffrey Kahrs Reads Amelia Rosselli’s Epic The Dragonfly

By any measure The Dragonfly is an extraordinary work of a young poet stretching the language between meaning and the paradoxical, and in turn engaging in an often-Manichean battle to define the ethical and moral. Sailing into the wind of the era of existentialism, the tacking and lurching of Amelia Rosselli’s poems reflects her singular…
Nonfiction Review: Eric Aldrich Reads Marcia Aldrich’s Essay Collection Edge

I’m reading Marcia Aldrich’s essay collection, Edge, when I get a text from a friend who is worried that he’s found bones belonging to a deer he knows. Edge is largely, though not exclusively, a book about deer, and I receive my friend’s message at the same moment I’m reading an essay in which Aldrich…
Adam Day: Five Poems from Midnight’s Talking Lion and the Wedding Fire

Chile example 1973—Zurita arrested and held in ship’s cargo hold; process-experience under witnessing. He tried to disappear his eyes with acid, but failed. “Instead he created a document: chapter twentieth century having disfigured its face. Might not be quite right. Then, a photo of its bandaged cheek with the text below, EGO SUM, and: ‘My…
“Dol-lim Ja Imprints”: A Poem by Georgia San Li

Characters for the Next Generations One generation of heirloom tomatoes divides their eggs, bubbling with blisters, bloody broken stems in the end. How many precious pigeon-red rubies will man flood with fires and vengeance of war in the end? Who were the three African women in tangerine silks and golden slippers, rerouted at Charles De…
Haunted Passages: “Transistor Radio,” an irreal autofiction by Peter Cherches

I found an old transistor radio on the street. It looked like the kinds I had when I was a kid. A transistor radio became an essential kid accessory when Beatlemania hit. One Saturday night back then I was going through the stations and I heard this guy doing a kind of stand-up act at…
“linguist body still writing thoughts”: Edward J. Matthews Reads Official Report on the Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3

To state that Official Report on the Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a compelling conceptual collaboration between Japanese glitch-cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori, the Canadian electro-acoustic duo Wormwood based in London, Ontario, and a coterie of academics, writers, artists, philosophers, and other members of The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds, is…
Poetry Review: evelyn bauer Reads The Sky Broke More by Garth Graeper

The Sky Broke More turns ecopoetics to horror, a reminder that nature is incredibly vast and mysterious, and we are soft, small, and vulnerable in the face of it. A prescient topic, as the climate catastrophe kicks around in the back of my head, readjusting my relationship to nature with every natural disaster, every strange…
Two Bad Survivalist Pantoums by Dan Collins

~ in which A.I. subroutines struggle with consciousness by investigating human thought through pantoums. A perfect OX Still, I refuse to accept that a perfect ox is the golden meanforged of utility and symmetry, but a stubborn pony cannot providea comfortable ride to the sublime. No matter how it goes, you musttrust what remains of…
New Side A Poem: Nathanael Jones’ “In the Absence of Language II”

In the Absence of Language II How will we say goodbye? You watch film after film and never notice that the music stops one moment and starts the next. I don’t think about it, you say. You turn your head away. A motor car peels through the corner of a cobblestone square; it is a…